These tipping points are now "active," scientists warn, and the rapid melting of polar ice and the loss of critical habitats could trigger an irreversible “global tipping point.” | Continue reading
Researchers from SRLabs found that telecos are implementing the RCS standard in vulnerable ways, which bring back techniques to attack phone networks. | Continue reading
A company is charging inmates by the minute to read ebooks on “free” tablets. The FCC could have stopped prison telecoms from gaining so much power, but didn’t. | Continue reading
The lawsuit argues Facebook violated its own terms of service and Israeli privacy law for using the employees’ personal information. | Continue reading
A document obtained by Motherboard shows how DMVs sell peoples’ names, addresses, and other personal information to generate revenue. | Continue reading
A Canadian company says it's trying to make weed less dank. | Continue reading
The alleged member was arrested around two weeks ago, another member of the hacking group told Motherboard. | Continue reading
Scientists disagree on the timeline of collapse and whether it's imminent. But can we afford to be wrong? And what comes after? | Continue reading
The panel "provides controls to change the intensity of the light fixtures, turn them on, and turn them off." | Continue reading
On Friday, Google employees will hold a demonstration outside the company’s San Francisco offices. Two workers put on administrative leave for looking into internal docs will speak publicly. | Continue reading
The 20-year-old Chicago man created a Python script to improve ISIS propaganda campaigns and had plans to design an operating system for the terror group, the FBI alleges. | Continue reading
The new WYSIWYG editor makes a bloated program even more bloated. | Continue reading
'Gylt' tries to be charming, but it's a game promising scares and stealth, while delivering on neither. | Continue reading
Independent "researchers" are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies. | Continue reading
“Such a strong signal has never been measured in ground-based gamma ray astronomy—this is the first time." | Continue reading
The agency that manages the .org domain has sold the whole thing to a private equity firm, which will likely drive up prices for nonprofits. | Continue reading
A network of cooperative alternatives are replacing rampant exploitation with decent work. | Continue reading
Parents gathered outside the university to beg police to let their kids go, while one protest leader called on the international community to prevent "Tiananmen 2019." | Continue reading
It’s a reward for hacktivists and criminals who break into capitalist institutions, offered by one of the most infamous hackers of all time. | Continue reading
Terry Davis, a schizophrenic programmer, has spent 10 years building an operating system to talk to God. | Continue reading
A security firm has released a new app that promises to detect when your iPhone has been targeted by hackers, but there are caveats. | Continue reading
A European bank makes customers pay to change their passwords, and suggests they Google their password to check if it is secure. | Continue reading
Tech workers are protesting outside of Github’s biggest event of the year—and several speakers have dropped out. | Continue reading
Two days after Instacart workers went on strike, the company eliminated one of their last pay perks. | Continue reading
The Marshall Islands say that plutonium is leaking into the Pacific Ocean from the concrete dome the U.S. built to dispose of nuclear waste. | Continue reading
Climate change is making New Orleans wetter, hotter, and more dangerous. It's a preview of what might happen to a state near you. | Continue reading
Scientists are finding that galaxies can move with each other across huge distances, and against the predictions of basic cosmological models. The reason why could change everything we think we know about the universe. | Continue reading
If you want to be in shape, skip the 10K training and sprint—but don't jog—to the nearest weight room. | Continue reading
Like the United States itself, 'Modern Warfare' can't tell its wars apart and doesn't bother trying. | Continue reading
How the professional-minded MIDI format, for an incredibly short but memorable period of time, became the primary way music was shared on the internet. | Continue reading
Psychedelics can help treat mental health conditions. But now experts are studying whether the trip is necessary. | Continue reading
Read the service notice that explains why old text messages suddenly showed up on people’s phones this week. | Continue reading
Far from being the sole creation of an AI, 'Edmond de Belamy' was the result of months of work by three people using a machine learning algorithm from 2014. | Continue reading
The tech world’s obsession with productivity is quietly remaking the workplace, and freelancers are paying money for around-the-clock accountability. | Continue reading
Chronicle, Google’s moonshot cybersecurity startup that was supposed to completely change the industry, is imploding. | Continue reading
An internet marketing firm asked me to promote a series of fake iOS jailbreak sites, including ones for jailbreaks that don't actually exist. | Continue reading
This adversarial design could be printed on a shirt to fool object recognition algorithms. | Continue reading
Into The Breach mourns the loss of those you leave behind. | Continue reading
Several people reported receiving old, random texts in the middle of the night. | Continue reading
A new parody website generates random excuses to explain why companies got hacked and apologize to their users. | Continue reading
A new healthcare report paints a truly bleak picture of millennials’ wellness future. | Continue reading
Sophie Haskins, a software engineer, tells Motherboard how she decided it was time to quit her job at a tech company that contracts to ICE. | Continue reading
"Alexa, ask Sam to clean the toilet." | Continue reading
The company's CEO said in an email that the company would undertake a year-long project to ensure every listing is advertised accurately. | Continue reading
A white hat hacker who used to help for free is now charging hacked influencers to help them regain access to their accounts. | Continue reading
The attack highlights a vulnerability in “smart” assistant microphones that can be targeted from up to 350 feet away using lasers. | Continue reading
Uber and WeWork are the most well-known disasters. Meet some others. | Continue reading